Saturday, September 10, 2011

Brazil's Machisma

There's a feature in our September issue about the rapid decline of Brazil's fertility rate. Sociologists suspect a surprising influence: Strong female characters in soap operas, called telenovelas there.

I didn't write the story (that would be the very talented Cynthia Gorney), but this was my first opportunity to write a full set of photo captions---or legends, as they're called around here. I enjoyed it.